Inhabitants of Ikot Nkebre communities in Calabar municipality area council of cross river state can now sleep with their two eyes closed as the cross river state government intervened on the live threatening gully erosion sites in the area.

Governor Ben Ayade had in April 2017 declared the area an emergency disaster zone when he led the Nigeria erosion and watershed management (NEWMAP) team to the community with a promise of quick intervention.

Work has since begun with the governor assuring the citizens that other erosion prone sites in the city centre will receive quick attention.

The governor called on the federal government and other environmental intervention agencies to support the state in its desire to make Cross River an erosion free state.

For the inhabitants of Nkenbre community, their joy knows no bound as the intervention has given them relief that their households are now safe and secure from the deadly gully.

AIT's Rasheed Olanrewaju reports that no fewer than five persons lost their lives to the erosion while several houses were submerged in 2017 alone. But with the current intervention by the Cross River State, most of the threatened properties can now have a sigh of relief.